Mary Gwen Owen
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Mary Gwen Owen was Macalester
The lessons Mary Gwen taught remain with me to this day! I'll never forget when she took our Drama Chorus (called "Choral Readers" at that time) to my hometown of Wadena, Minn. When we performed "The Little Girl and the Wolf," we brought down the house!
Dianne Davis Phillips
When actress Margaret Webster visited
Margaret Webster, the great Shakespearean actress, came to our opening of "Twelfth Night." Doug Hatfield and Mary Gwen held a reception and it was quite an event for the Little Theatre gang!
Dianne Davis Phillips
Scuffing up my new saddle shoes
Remember when all the theater work was done in that little barracks with Mary Gwen Owens at the helm? What a dynamo! I remember when she told me to scuff-up my new saddle shoes so I would look like I had been somewhere. She made great changes in my life.
M. Joanne Lund Jensen
Being Mary Gwen’s example
I remember when Mary Gwen Owen would constantly use me as an example of how not to speak. "Do not speak as if you came from W-AAAAAA-road, Minnesota!” I loved her anyway.
Pat Holland Stotts
A few of my Mac favorites
My Macalester days were terrific. My favorite stories included Drama Choros with Mary Gwen Owen and our trips and performances; life in the Mac Little Theater department; and, though my home was a block away from the campus, dorm life in Bigelow Hall was special.
Linda J. Wright
That potent perfume
Living off campus four years on Princeton Avenue, I walked through the Little Theater building to reach the heart of the campus. When I opened the door, you were immediately “greeted” by the perfume of Mary Gwen Owen. It was simply everywhere inside that building!
Rich Melin
Why Jim really painted our walls blue
I never have gotten around to buying that shawl, fastened with a large gorgeous silver pin, I so admired on Mary Gwen Owen! Nor do I have those many beautiful silver rings she always wore… I greatly admired Mary Gwen when I was in the Macalester Drama Chorus. I believe it was she that recommended I tell my husband Jim to paint the walls “blue” when he asked what color I wanted in our new house. We lived with all blue walls in that house for a long, long time!
Beth Dixon Otto
Upon Taking the advice of Mary Gwen
Mary Gwen said, “Try everything once.” So my roommate, Marcia (Mittlestad) and I did just that. We ushered at many touring plays in St. Paul and Minneapolis that we would not have otherwise seen. Somehow we also ushered at a professional hockey game, now that was a different story, and not repeated! Of course she also said, "Call me a dirty old woman, but don’t call me a senior citizen!" What a woman! What a wonderful role model for the lives we were going to live.
Pat Lind Zankman
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